Allergy | Allergies » autism http://allergy-aware.com Allergy information about allergies Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Autism Treatment – How To Control Your Child’s Autism With Gluten Free Diet http://allergy-aware.com/147/gluten-free/autism-treatment-how-to-control-your-childs-autism-with-gluten-free-diet/ http://allergy-aware.com/147/gluten-free/autism-treatment-how-to-control-your-childs-autism-with-gluten-free-diet/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:14:49 +0000 Jane Simpson http://allergy-aware.com/147/gluten-free/autism-treatment-how-to-control-your-childs-autism-with-gluten-free-diet/ imageGluten is a special type of protein that is commonly found in our day-to-day food items. While it is an essential element of our diet, the body of an Autistic child reacts differently than a normal child. Hence, it is essential for the parents to plan gluten free diet for your child suffering with Autism.

Initially, one must understand that gluten free diet is not a cure of Autism. It primarily lessens the symptoms of Autism in the child. Further, one must hold on to this diet for several months rather than a few weeks. While the gluten free diet the child intakes does its job well, it takes a long time to remove the gluten that is already consumed. In certain cases however, people do find immediate results.

It needs a lot of planning to follow gluten free diet. The regularly used cereals like rye, wheat, and barley contain high content of gluten. Therefore, it is also found in most types of bread. Yet, grains such as wild rice, corn, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, teff, oats, soybeans, and sunflower seeds contain are surely gluten free.

Certain vinegars and sauces also contain gluten. The artificial flavorings and many other snacks & cookies available in the markets also contain gluten.

To your surprise, gluten can be present in foods that you would never have expected such as the spices. So while following the gluten free diet, be sure to read the labels on each and every food pack.

Gluten free diet can be quite expensive to follow as these items are sold mostly at the specialty or health stores. While this might get too heavy for your pocket, nowadays major grocery stores also deal in these products. Gluten free flour, pancake mix, waffles, cookies, snacks, and many other foods are also now readily available.

Hence, it is advisable that parents make a group and shop in bulk for these products. This makes the costs relatively cheaper and later the families can share the food items.

Planning economically, it is also convenient to cook gluten free food at home. The recipes are available at many common resources like the internet & cook books. A whole lot of information in this regard can also be gathered from the book shop or the library near by.

Children suffering with Autism can consume meat, fruits, fish, vegetables, eggs, nuts, etc. as these are all gluten free. To make this diet interesting for the child, one might plan children’s beloved snacks made out of gluten free ingredients like muffins & cookies made of gluten free flour. Once this practice gets into the system of the household, it gets easier.

The dairy products contain casein that the autistic children are commonly allergic to. So while following this diet, many people minimize or stop the diary products as well. Yet, it is advised that you should get done your child’s allergy testing. Your doctor can guide you more on the same.

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